The Mine Ventilation Class Field Laboratory 1998
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This year a group of eight mining engineering students visited the Rosebud Gold Mine near Winnemucca, Nevada, jointly owned by Hecla and Newmont, to carry out a ventilation survey of the mine. This is a required part of the class and enables the students to obtain hands on experience of what problems and difficulties can be encountered when trying to do a ventilation survey in an operating underground mine. The visit was kindly organized by Mr. Matt Blattman, a mine engineer at the mine, and a recent graduate from the Mackay School of Mines with the approval and assistance of Mr. Richard Appling, chief mine engineer. It involved a long day of travel and work for the group starting at 6:00am and returning at 10:00pm tired but satisfied after a successful survey. Like all field projects the group will have to analyze the data they collected while at the mine, and write a report which will be submitted to the class instructur, Professor Pierre Mousset-Jones, and Mr. Matt Blattman. In this way both the students and the mine benefit from the experience. |
 David Hopperstead, a class member and President of the student John Mackay Club, standing in front of the spare mine surface fan at the mine. |
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The majority of the group standing in front of the main exhaust fan installation at the mine. Professor Mousset-Jones is wearing the hard hat. |
| Class members, Sam Marich and Jonas Pearce, being briefed on the ventilation system in the mine office. |
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